Old favourites, new challenges: Russian Ballet Icons Gala

A tribute to Diaghilev that looked backward, showcased the contemporary and offered something new

Yuri Grigorovich, master Russian choreographer, reaches his 90th birthday

As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more